The English Word Speculum
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Author | : D. W. Cummings |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1988-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801834431 |
In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self-regulating and self-reorganizing system that is responsive to four kinds of imperative: phonetic, semantic, etymological, and systemic. Cummings offers a systematic theory of orthography and applies this theory to the American English vocabulary with numerous examples. Cummings also describes the explication of written words into their elements, particles, and processes, and he sets out the tactical and procedural rules that control the distribution and sequencing of vowels and consonants. In the largest section of the book, he provides an exhaustive description of the major and minor correspondences between the sounds of American English words and their spellings. An essential reference work, American English Spelling moves beyond questions of how words are spelled to an understanding of why they are spelled as they are.
Author | : Isaac Kaufman Funk |
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Total Pages | : 1304 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Samuel Johnson |
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Total Pages | : 936 |
Release | : 1805 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Nathan Bailey |
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Total Pages | : 952 |
Release | : 1731 |
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Total Pages | : 1776 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Science |
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Total Pages | : 1276 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Medicine |
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Author | : John Ogilvie |
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Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : Louise Sylvester |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780859916066 |
A bibliography of studies of individual Middle English words and groups of words offering evidence for word meanings. Although detailed and full bibliographies exist for Old English word studies, this is the first specifically on Middle English lexicography, focussing on studies of individual Middle English words and groups of words which offer evidence for word meanings: ante- and post-datings for the Oxford English Dictionary and the Middle English Dictionary, missing entries and ghost words, possible proverbs, proposals for etymologies, wordplay, punning, new readingsin manuscripts and the reinterpretations of textual cruces. It first presents an annotated bibliography arranged alphabetically by author's name and date of publication; the annotations include notes on the contents and approach of each article, cross-references to related work, and references to reviews. Two indexes follow, the Index of Words, an alphabetical listing of words that have attracted significant discussion with references to the author(s), publication date and notes of pages on which the words are discussed; and an Index of Authors. The introductory section offers critical analyses of the word studies. Professor JANE ROBERTS and Dr LOUISE SYLVESTER teach atKing's College London.
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Total Pages | : 1704 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Biography |
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Author | : Edward Phillips |
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Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1720 |
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